Freedom’s Children‚ a book taking place throughout the civil rights movement‚ shows the pain and stuggle that African Americans had to endure simply because of the color of their skin. In the text‚ thirty African-Americans who were either young children or growing teenagers give their first hand accounts of racial discrimination. Using information from the first hand accounts of participants in famous struggles that took place in Arkansas‚ Alabama‚ and Mississippi‚ Levine‚ the author‚ is able to
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The book the Red Queen is about a girl who lives in an area where the silvers have the power over the reds but Mare finds out she doesn’t fit in with these labels. The silvers are described God and goddess like. They have silver blood and powers like some can control metal‚ fire‚ and can read others thoughts. The Reds are the lower class. They are human like with red blood. They have no powers and they work. When reds are the age of eighteen and out of work they are conscripted to go to war.
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Broken China In the book Broken China the author Lori Aurelia Williams brings the reader a novel dealing with a young mother’s struggles and much more. China Cup Cameron is 14 balancing going to school full time just barely hanging on and trying to raise her 2 year old daughter almost single handedly‚ until death is brought upon the family. China is forced to find a job that will require her to make lots of money to make ends meet. Unfortunately‚ her only option is to work at Obsidian Queens‚
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The book The Lovely Bones is about a young girl named Susie Salmon that was murdered at the age of fourteen. Susie is the narrator of the story and she tells her story and watches her family and friends try and catch the killer. But she is having a hard time getting her family’s attention while she is in heaven. She starts to get bored in heaven and depressed and she starts to watch her family fall apart because of her death. The book talks about more of her heaven and how she is not enjoying her
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leader insisted. Although many terrible things happened during the holocaust‚ there are still some people‚ still living today‚ that have escaped. One person that got to go to the gas chambers was Hana. This person is a character in the book “Hana’s Suitcase”. This book is a true story about this family that have been taken away. It talks about their life before they got taken away‚ and their parents got taken away
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the salamander as symbols for his book Fahrenheit 451. He chose these animals as symbols because these animals are both mythic creatures related to fire‚ which is a main idea in the story. In the story of Fahrenheit 451‚ it talks about a dystopian society where people function as one large group. In this society‚ books are banned and when found‚ they are to be immediately reported to the firemen and then the books would be burned. The main character of the book was a fire man and was a person that
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nicknamed Ender‚ a genius child who does the wrong things for the right reasons. The book was full of psychological thrills and requires a fair amount of intelligence to understand the decisions made in the story. The decisions made by Ender are crucial plot points in the book. Things as simple to defense against bullies to simulated attacks against the Formics‚ an alien race‚ could change the fate of everyone. The book starts as Ender is about to get his monitor taken out‚ a device that monitors Ender’s
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April 14 Book Review Money Ball: The Art of Wining an Unfair Game by‚ Michael Lewis When I think of business the first thing that comes to mind is management. Having a good management is one of the biggest keys to a successful business. Most people’s first thought when it comes to professional sports‚ is not how much of complex business it is. The book “Money Ball” by Michael Lewis is the perfect example of how complex and strategic the professional sport industry is. This book applied to
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Branded (Wanting the Wrong Dalton) is a full-length Western Historical Romance. *Warning: Graphic language and explicit sex.* Slade Dalton’s partner has just dispatched their latest quarry‚ a member of the notorious Purdy clan. Slade’s certain there will be retribution and he’s certain that he’s damn tired of the bounty hunting business. Returning to the family’s cattle spread in the Colorado Territory‚ he’s relieved to find his brother Grady has not claimed ownership of the ranch in his absence
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David and his whole family died from being suffocated by gas. What happened to David was not fair; he was a Jew in a time when Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews‚ and because of this David was always coping with all of the fears that he faced. This book‚ We Are Witnesses‚ journals the life of David Rubinowicz. David had younger siblings who were murdered with David from being gassed. One of the biggest obstacles
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